Dançar [com] a cidade: mapeamentos sensíveis da experiência urbana contemporânea

Abstract

We understand that the production policies of cities repeat for decades the same logic of spectacular production. In Brazil, these policies are aligned with the actions of so-called strategic planning and aim to transform the urban spaces into true commodities, consumables for those who have money. This model creates public spaces that are averse to popular vitality, increasing the isolationist individualism of the population. In view of this, this work highlights the need to add new approaches to the study of the contemporary city, in order to make the reverse operation. Therefore, we focused on the study of the relations between body and city from the experience of dance composition in urban public spaces. This so called "situated dance" is created based on and to a given spatial reality, that means, a collaborative creation. We seek to investigate what contents of the city are registered in this situated composition process and what relations can be made between this type of artistic creation and the disciplinary field of urbanism. In this case, our methodological principle understands the situated dance as our "distancing device" capable of creating approximations with our research object. For this, the realization of a series of artistic experiments, in the city of João Pessoa - PB, helped us to better understand the principles that move the making of the situated dance. A “way of doing” that found affinities with theories of rhizomatic thought, introduced throughout the research as means to provoke discussion about the ways of thinking the city. Thus, we noticed that the dancer, while composing the situated dance in the urban environment, adopts a "cartographer" attitude, generating sensitive mappings of the space in which it is located. The practice of situated dance, when created with the city and its people, demands another way of looking at the city: a micropolitical way.